Tropicana Deal Clears Ownership Amid Licensing Shakeup
In a last minute move before the Gaming Commission deadline, Tropicana Hotel executives reached a deal to restructure ownership. Major stockholder Mitzi Stauffer Briggs controls 40 percent with 51.2 percent overall, while Hotel Conquistador holds 20 percent. Fred and Edward Doumani and 12 other investors hold the remainder as they seek approval of the Tropicana Hotel Corporation license.
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State Gaming Commission
Tropicana Hotel
Tropicana Hotel Corporation
Mitzi Stauffer Briggs
Hotel Conquistador
Fred
Edward Doumani
Mrs. Briggs
Notable Heatwave Continues Through Wednesday
Forecast calls for hot and sunny conditions with variable winds 16 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Tuesday’s high near 110 and low 80, Monday 109/75, humidity high 16 percent and low 7 percent. A year ago today 99 and 72. Sunrise 5:51 a.m. Sunset 7:42 p.m.
Las Vegas mayor battles obscenity amid debate over smut
A letter discusses Las Vegas mayor Bill Briare leading actions against massage parlors and porno dealers, praising a tough stand to keep the city from turning into honky tonk. It recalls Bob Kuningas, former Henderson detective, whose daughter Tracy battles a brain tumor with medical costs mounting and a trust fund set up by friends and family.
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Las Vegas
Bill Briare
Concensus
Paul Price
Bob
Henderson
Vermont
Tracy
Bobby
Boston Children’s Hospital
Tracy Kuningas
Bank of Nevada
City commissioners still at large over masseuse permits ruling
Las Vegas officials defied a district judge order propping eight masseuses’ permits while crowds gathered at City Hall. Judge Goldman had ordered permits but had not signed. the city appeals, and Deputy Director Crow faces possible firing if he defies the ruling. Contempt threats loom as Sultan’s Palace seeks status and a show cause date nears.
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Appeals
Masseuse Ruling
Las Vegas
Goldman
Sultan's Palace
Lovell
Butt
Department of License and Revenue
Crow
Carson City
Supreme Court
Baare
Mrs. Britt
Baxter Boulet
Cynthia Senor
Massesus
California
Hilma Bailey
Esther Chapman
Naomi Cherrington
Debra Dempsey
Ursula Fohmann
Carol Foreman
Charlotte Miller
Delores Johnson
Maria Santa Maria
Joanne Sheldon
Edith Elaine Tant
Vicki Davis Yorton
City Fathers
Velvet Touch Massage Parlor
Sultan’s Palace
City Hall
Japan Moves Prisoners For Red Army Embassy Deal
Japan transported five prisoners to a Kuala Lumpur bound plane as part of a hostage exchange in the U S embassy crisis. New guerrilla demands emerged inside the Kuala Lumpur embassy including telephone access and identity confirmations for two Japanese radicals linked to Matsuda.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Red Army
U.S
Japan Airlines DC
Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Gurney bribery trial verdicts sealed amid deadlock
A federal jury in Tampa returned sealed verdicts in the bribery conspiracy case of former Sen. Edward Gurney and three co defendants while reporting deadlock on other counts. Judge Ben F. Krentzman ordered the sealed verdicts stay closed until deliberations end and locked them in a vault. The jury heads into its ninth day of deliberations.
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Tampa
Fila
Ipi
Edward Gurney
U.S
Ben F. Krentzman
Krentzman
Gurney
Berserk hammer attack in Springfield kills one
An unemployed laborer attacked eight people with a carpenter's hammer in Springfield. Frank H. Sherry, 25, was charged with eight counts of aggravated battery and later faced stronger charges after one victim died. Victims range in age from 6 to 74. four were seriously hurt and hospitalized.
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St. John’s Hospital
John Birdsong Jr
Tomson Dace
Augusta Stone
Rhea Reed
Springfield
Sherry
Ascher
Steve Wilkins
Goodsprings Woman Killed in One-Car Crash
A sixty year old Goodsprings woman Marguerite Myers was killed in a one car wreck on U S 91 south of Las Vegas yesterday. Nevada Highway Patrol said she was on the wrong side of the road at excessive speed when her car struck a reflector, rolled over one and a half times and came to rest on its top after crossing the highway twice. Her husband who was driving in a separate vehicle found the scene.
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Newwoman
U.S. 91
Las Vegas
Nevada Highway Patrol
Marguerite Myers
Four Arrested In Stolen U S Arsenal Case In L A
Los Angeles FBI reports four men Salvatore Barone and his son Salvatore both of Whittier Lupe Contreras and his son Richard of East Los Angeles were arrested and the arsenal stolen from a Compton National Guard armory last year was recovered. Stolen items include 95 M 16 rifles 18 M 79 launchers seven M 60 machine guns and more. If convicted each faces up to 10 years imprisonment and $10 000 in fines.
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Los Angeles
UPI
National Guard
FBI
Salvatore Barone
Salvatore
Whittier
Lupe Contreras
Richard
East Los Angeles
Compton
Calif
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Nevada
Boulder City
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Bridge
Comics
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Classified
Society
Joe Delaney
Editorial
Muriel Stevens
Stock
Johannes Steel
Ann Landers
Television
Briare
Bob Kuningas
Jacksonville
Ken Langbell
SUN
Howard Crow
Ira Batt
the Sun
Goldmans
Bnare
City Commission
State Supreme Court
Carl Lovell
Stan Clawson
Nishikawa
Tohira
Japan Air Lines
Middle East
LA Cops
U.S. Arsenal
Contreras
Casino & Sas
E. Fremont
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